Welcome to GNOME Blogs!

… and a hearty welcome to our regular GNOME bloggers! Hopefully you’ve noticed that we’ve had a bit of an upgrade over here… No more NewsBruiser — we’re running with WordPress MU.

What does that mean for you?

Rocking user experience, built on the foundations of everybody’s favourite blogging tool, WordPress.

Multiple blogs: Yes, you can run more than just one blog! You may want one for yourself, one for your project. Do be nice though, there’s only one namespace here.

Multiple authors: You can invite existing users to participate on your blog — perfect for developer teams to contribute to a project blog. There are a few different user levels, so you can act as ‘editor’ to a team of contributors, give core maintainers administrative access, etc.

Some cool themes to start you off, including the beautifully stylesheetable Sandbox. You can apply your own CSS to any theme using the ‘Custom CSS’ page. Make your blog yours.

Customisable sidebar widgets, and a few cool widget plugins to play with. Stick a Twitter or Flickr feed in your sidebar, let everyone know where you’re at.

Spam protection thanks to the Bad Behavior plugin, enabled by default on every blog, and auto-closing comments after 21 days of inactivity. We’re going to wait and see how bad the spam might get before implementing other measures.